OJ Simpson book raises questions over earnings

AND the winner of this year's "What on earth were you thinking?" award goes to Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation. The reason for such an honour was a proposed book and TV interview with OJ Simpson, in which he was to give an account of how, had he been guilty, he might have murdered his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

The problem is that, while Simpson may have left court a free man, it is widely accepted the proposed book should have been better titled How I Did It rather than If I Did It. Despite it being 11 years since that famous media trial, it would seem the...